Amdon

• Chaldean herder who first saw Melchizedek

93:2.1It was 1,973 years be­fore the birth of Je­sus that Ma­chi­venta was be­stowed upon the hu­man races of Uran­tia. His com­ing was un­spec­tac­u­lar; his ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion was not wit­nessed by hu­man eyes. He was first ob­served by mor­tal man on that event­ful day when he en­tered the tent of Am­don, a Chaldean herder of Sume­rian ex­trac­tion. And the procla­ma­tion of his mis­sion was em­bod­ied in the sim­ple state­ment which he made to this shep­herd, “I am Mel­chiz­e­dek, priest of El Elyon, the Most High, the one and only God.”

93:2.2When the herder had re­cov­ered from his as­ton­ish­ment, and af­ter he had plied this stranger with many ques­tions, he asked Mel­chiz­e­dek to sup with him, and this was the first time in his long uni­verse ca­reer that Ma­chi­venta had par­taken of ma­te­rial food, the nour­ish­ment which was to sus­tain him through­out his ninety-four years of life as a ma­te­rial be­ing.

93:2.3And that night, as they talked out un­der the stars, Mel­chiz­e­dek be­gan his mis­sion of the rev­e­la­tion of the truth of the re­al­ity of God when, with a sweep of his arm, he turned to Am­don, say­ing, “El Elyon, the Most High, is the di­vine cre­ator of the stars of the fir­ma­ment and even of this very earth on which we live, and he is also the su­preme God of heaven.”